May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

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The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists…It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one’s spiritual attainments…God was and is looking for hungry, thirsty people.

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When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

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If a girl understands your BS, sticks with you through your mistakes, smiles even when you've done nothing for her, it's obvious she's a keeper. But it's also obvious you don't deserve her.

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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse. — Florence Nightingale

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

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No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying. - Tony Robbins

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